Antigona Gonzalez by
Antígona González is a book of prose that focuses on the fictional story of Antígona González's search for her missing brother, Tadeo. It is set in Tamaulipas, Mexico, the state with the highest number of missing persons reported in the nation.
Neva by
This politically charged, haunting yet humorous meditation on theater and the revolutionary impulse tells the story of three actors, including Anton Chekhov's widow, who gather to rehearse scenes from The Cherry Orchard as Russia faces an impending revolution. A savage examination of the relationship between theater and historical context.
Billy the Kid and Other Plays by
While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya's plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest. This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses the Mexican legend of the dreaded "crying woman" with that of La Malinche, mistress and adviser to Hernán Cortés.
Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays by
From the fecund imagination of José Rivera, a writer known for his lunch language, open heart and stylistic flirting with the surreal, come four new plays that interweave love and politics. Boleros for the disenchanted is a story of the playwright's own parents: their falling in love in 1950s Puerto Rico up through more difficult times forty years later in America.
Devil Land by
This creepy drama starts off as a more or less ordinary abduction story. The childless Bronx super Americo and his straitlaced, religious wife, Beatriz, kidnap an eccentric 12-year-old neighbor and imprison her in their building's boiler room. Below the surface antics of Americo's growing lecherousness and Beatriz's punitive religiosity, however, an eerier narrative unfolds. The captive child calls upon her "imaginary" playmate the Grinch and the ancient spirits of the Taíno Amerindians, her Puerto Rican ancestors, to keep her safe and to uncover the couple's many mysteries, like what happeded to their real child.
On Insomnia and Midnight by 
Fefu and Her Friends by
Set in 1935 New England, the play concerns a group of women who knew one another in college and gather for a reunion as adults.
Jarman (All This Maddening Beauty) and Other Plays by
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea).
Whipping Man by
The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former slaves, Simon and John, who wait in the empty house for the family's return. As the three men wait for signs of life to return to the city, they wrestle with their shared past, the bitter irony of Jewish slave-owning and the reality of the new world in which they find themselves.
The Rogues' Trial by
The intrepid men of the harsh Backlands (sertoes) of Northeastern Brazil, who live by cattle raising and subsistence farming, are, by repute, exceptionally energetic, shrewd, and pious. The chief rogue in this modern miracle play has all these characteristics and a few others as well. John Cricket is a petty thief, a crook of all trades, and especially a very fast talker.
Mimesophobia by
They seemed like the perfect couple. Attractive. Well-educated. Affluent. Why did the husband brutally murder his wife and take his own life? Aaron and Henry, two young wannabe screenwriters at a writer's retreat struggle with crippling blocks as they seek to solve the mystery. Shawn, an academic teetering on the edge of insanity grapples with her own possible involvement in the killing, while writing a book about America's obsession with violence. Meanwhile, the murder victim's sister attempts to reconstruct the truth from the ashes of her late sister's diary, becoming a celebrity in the process. What really happened that violent night, and will any of them come close to uncovering the truth?
Earthquake Chica by
In present day Los Angeles, Esmeralda, feisty with a capital "F" and frustrated, desperately wants out of her secretarial job. The escape act begins when Sam, a shy, literary accountant, asks her out. Amidst the poetry of Latin American and Spanish romantics and, well, mathematical equations, a comedic "marriage of the minds" ensues catapulting them out of their work-a-day lives and into an unforgettable lesson in how to love.
Daphne's Dive by
A revolutionary trying to shake up the status quo. A child looking for refuge from a violent home. An artist in search of some trash to paint. You'll find them all at Daphne's Dive, a neighborhood bar in North Philly, where a collection of misfits gather for cold beer and warm company.
More plays by Quiara Alegría Hudes
The Plays of Josefina Niggli by
Josefina Niggli (1910–1983) was one of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early twentieth century. Born of European parents and raised in Mexico, she spent most of her adult life in the United States, and in her plays and novels she aimed to portray authentic Mexican experiences for English-speaking audiences. Niggli crossed borders, cultures, and genres, and her life and work prompt interesting questions about race, class, gender, modernity, ethnic and national identity, and the formation of literary canons.
Color of Desire/Hurricane by
The Color of Desire, reminiscent of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, captures the last moments of an island on the brink of change. Set in 1960, at the beginning of Havanna's revolution, it is a vibrant exploration of the lost love affair between America and Cuba. In Hurricane, a damaged family - a missionary, his wife and their son, who seems to have materialized from the ocean - faces a crisis when a hurricane ravages their Caribbean town
Hamilton: the Revolution: Being the Complete Libretto of the Broadway Musical, with a True Account of its Creation, and Concise Remarks on Hip-Hop, the Power of Stories, and the new America by
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of Hamilton the musical, detailing the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.
Bubbeh by
A Jewish girl in Mexico is torn between resembling her mother or her grandmother. The mother, a doctor, is an aloof intellectual, the grandmother is no intellectual, but she has warmth and Old World charm.
Felipe Ángeles by 
Fuente by
Something is not right. There is a secret humidity in the air in a town where the breezes have been on strike for two hundred years. Fuente is a magically-real comedy, set in a remote desert town, about love, revenge, escape, and the perilous powers of Aquanet hairspray.
El Nogalar by
Set in modern day Northern Mexico, the Galvan family, led by Matriarch Maite, have come back to their pecan orchard to reclaim their land after she has squandered away their money. In the time they were away, however, the Mexico they once knew has slowly been taken over by a drug war. Focusing on the relationships between sisters, and a mother and her daughters, will these women choose to adapt to the world around them or get left behind?
A Rosario Castellanos Reader : an Anthology of her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama by
Offers a semiotic approach to Rosario Castellanos' writings and includes selections that show the interrelatedness of her work.
Nuevo California by
A fabulist comedy-drama of a future city-state made up of Tijuana and San Diego after a great California earthquake.
Teresa's Ecstasy by
About the unexpected influence of Saint Teresa of Avila, a 16th-century Carmelite nun, on modern-day Carlotta, a writer.
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Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas by
This collection reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have been constructed throughout the Americas. Essays bridge political, racial, gender, class, and national divides that have traditionally restricted and distorted our understanding of Latin American theatre and performance. Contributors—scholars and artists from throughout the Americas, including well-known playwrights, directors, and performers—imagine how to reposition the Latina/o Americas in ways that offer agency to its multiple peoples, cultures, and histories. In addition, they explore the ways artists can create new maps and methods for their creative visions.
Contemporary Latina/o Theater by
In Contemporary Latina/o Theater, Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Piñero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, José Rivera, and Cherríe Moraga.
The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes by
The book is an examination of the works of five contemporary Latina playwrights: Cusi Cram, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Elaine Romero, Caridad Svich, and Karen Zacarias. It argues that the playwright Maria Irene Fornes's writing and teaching have influenced the analyzed dramatists to produce plays that are more transcultural than previous generations of Latina playwrights
Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production by
Provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights.
Latin American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories by
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful and informative studies elucidates an essential component of the Latin American literary canon.'
Latin American Women On/In Stages by
Latin American Women On/In Stages examines twenty-four plays written by women living in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. While all of the plays critique the restraints placed on being female, several also offer alternatives that emphasize a broader and healthier range of options.
Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina by
Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory narratives that change public reception to a government's transitional justice policies. Drawing on contemporary research in memory studies and transitional justice, Montez examines the Argentine theatre's responses to the country's transitional justice policies—truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties and pardons, and memorial events and spaces—that have taken place in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance by
Caridad Svich -- Manifestations of desires : a critical introduction / María Teresa Marrero -- Straight as a line / Luis Alfaro -- Stuff / Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante -- Fur : a play in nineteen scenes / Migdalia Cruz -- Night train to Bolina / Nilo Cruz -- Skin : an adaptation of Büchner's Woyzeck / Naomi Iizuka -- Ragged time / Oliver Mayer -- Trash : a monologue / Pedro R. Monge-Rafuls -- Hungry woman : a Mexican Medea / Cherríe Moraga -- Greetings from a queer señorita / Monica Palacios -- Alchemy of desire/Dead-man's blues : a play with songs / Caridad Svich -- From the U.K. : a European perspective on Latino theatre (an afterword) / Maria M. Delgado.
Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands by
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of 'borderlands.'
The Sense of Brown by
Muñoz's treatise is on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer José Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness that is not fixed within the racial and national contours of Latinidad. This sense of brown is not about the individualized brown subject; rather, it demonstrates that for brown peoples, being exists within what Muñoz calls the brown commons--a lifeworld, queer ecology, and form of collectivity.
A Shared Truth: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas Al Sol by
Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Lizards Lounging in the Sun) is a Mexican theater company that performs what is known as theater of the real. By taking reality as its subject, this genre claims a special relationship to reality, truth, and authenticity. In A Shared Truth, Julie Ann Ward traces the development of this contemporary and cutting-edge collective's unique aesthetic.
Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing by
Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories write about theater.
Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre by
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 drastically altered life in Cuba. Theatre artists were faced with new economic and social realities that changed their day-to-day experiences and ways of looking at the world beyond the island. The Cuban Revolution's resistance to and intersections with globalization, modernity, emigration and privilege are central to the performances examined in this study.
Zoot Suit and Other Plays by
Zoot suit: A gritty and vivid depiction of the horrifying violence and racism suffered by young Mexican Americans on the home front during World War II, focusing on the events surrounding the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 1942 and the ensuing Zoot Suit Riots that turned Los Angeles into a bloody war zone. Valdez's cadre of young urban characters struggle with the stereotypes and generalizations of America's dominant culture, the questions of assimilation and patriotism, and a desire to rebel against the mainstream pressures that threaten to wipe them out.
The Golden Thread and Other Plays by
The mirror. -- The time and the place: Dead love, The glacier, The wine cellar. -- The golden thread. -- The intermediate zone. -- The clockmaker from Coŕdoba. -- Theseus.
Information for Foreigners by